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Hi - I'm Glenda, from Madisom WI. I've signed up for theAug 25 2015 Spectacular Newfoundland trip and am very much looking forward to it. All of my recent Road Scholar trips have been fantastic (a service trip in NW Dominican Republic, a panda study service trip Earthwatch) in China, an adventure trip to Alaska and Yukon, and most recently, a water project construction service trip in El Sauce Nicaragua (with El Porvenir). Anyone want to correspond?

Our first trip. Moons Travel Guide says $28 plus $6 per person to downtown. Gullivers, Citywide and Jiffy. Not the 15 person van, just a taxi. Hope this helps. How is e'hostel so far? Best Regards, Don Lewis

Don, this is about our 15th e'hostel trip and so far we have NEVER been disappointed. Usually our expectations have been exceeded. this is however, only our second trip outside the USA; we had an incredible time in Panama, going throur the canal on a small boat. we're looking forward to meeting you.

For anyone who would like additional reading on Newfoundland, I have two suggestions: D. W. Prowse's History of Newfoundland and Wayne Johnston's novel based on Joey Smallwood's life. In my own reading I was constantly coming across references to Prowse's History and finally decided to try to find it. Since it was published in 1895, and I live in a very small town in Colorado, I thought it would be a challenge for inter-library loan. No problem. The day after I asked for it I received a phone call from the librarian with this web site, where it is available for free: www.archive.org/stream/historyof newfound... Look for the version digitized by a Canadian library org--the google version omits maps, charts, some photos.

Thanks Laurie. Actually, between the time I posted and when you responded I used Wikipedia to look up Smallwood. That entry lead me to the book, which I'm going to borrow as an e-book and carry with me on the trip (no time to read before then). See you in less than 3 weeks!

I think you will enjoy the Johnston novel. I read it a year or two after it was published. I don't know how historically accurate it is, but it certainly gives a good general picture of what was going on in Smallwood's life, and it's a great story. I found Bernice Morgan's novel Cape Random in my library system. It doesn't seem to exist as an e-book, but at least it is a paperback. Perhaps we can compare Newfoundland novels during the trip. See you soon.

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